June 30, 200916 yr Sorry for reposting this but my first post has dissappeared for some reason. Mods, if the old one has been moved I couldn't find it.My beloved Dell XPS laptop was stolen from my car on June 18th and now that the trauma if fading somewhat I'm looking to replace it. I was going to just get another XPS but after visisting the Dell sight it looks as if these are being replaced by the Alienware line. After looking at all the configurations many times I have one I'm pretty sure is the best as far as running FSX but I sure would appreciate some input on a couple of the choices.My main two concerns are the processor and the graphics (duh) . I can't seem to find a definitive answer on the question of how many cores FSX is able to take advantage of and also if SLI is used or not.As far as the processors go, these are my choices and right now I'm leaning toward the 2.9 GHZ Duo. :Core 2 DuoIntel Steve Corzine
June 30, 200916 yr if you have the time,Can read directions And take electrostatic precautions,Build your own. I went here, http://www.madonion.com/hardware/ To find out what the top of the line components were. I don't know why more people dont build . Jim Driscoll, MSI Raider GE76 12UHS-607 17.3" Gaming Laptop Computer - Blue Intel Core i9 12th Gen 12900HK 1.8GHz Processor; NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 16GB GDDR6; 64GB DDR5-4800 RAM; Dual M2 2TB Solid State Drives.Driving a Sony KD-50X75, and KDL-48R470B @ 4k 3724x2094,MSFS 2020, 30 FPS on Ultra Settings. Jorg/Asobo: “Weather is a core part of our simulator, and we will strive to make it as accurate as possible.”Also Jorg/Asobo: “We are going to limit the weather API to rain intensity only.”
June 30, 200916 yr A far as GPU I'm leaning toward the GTX 280M even if FSX doesn't use SLI:Single NVIDIA Bert
June 30, 200916 yr Author if you have the time,Can read directions And take electrostatic precautions,Build your own. I went here, http://www.madonion.com/hardware/ To find out what the top of the line components were. I don't know why more people dont build .Thanks, I do that for desktops but this has to be a laptop.Steve Steve Corzine
June 30, 200916 yr Author For FSX, do not bother with SLI.. it will give you zero benefits. Rather, go for the fastest CPU, as you have.Thanks Bert, I agree on the CPU. As far as SLI, on this laptop there is no option(appearently) to choose just one 280GTX, if you want one GPU you must opt for the 260 GTX. Not sure exactly what the difference is, I'll have to check that out. Even though FSX doesn't natively use SLI someone mentioned using Nhancer to do some sort of "every other frame" thing that works. That post went away with whatever happened to the rest of the posts that disappered :( Steve Corzine
June 30, 200916 yr Thanks Bert, I agree on the CPU. As far as SLI, on this laptop there is no option(appearently) to choose just one 280GTX, if you want one GPU you must opt for the 260 GTX. Not sure exactly what the difference is, I'll have to check that out. Even though FSX doesn't natively use SLI someone mentioned using Nhancer to do some sort of "every other frame" thing that works. That post went away with whatever happened to the rest of the posts that disappered :(You may want two GPUs for some other game.. but for FSX, the 260GTX will do the job for you, based on everything I've read.Assuming your monitor resolution is not above 1920x1200 :-) Bert
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